Non-participatory user-centered design of accessible teacher-teleoperated robot and tablets for minimally verbal autistic children

Jamy Jue Li; Daniel Patrick Davison; Alyssa M. Alcorn; Alria Williams; Snezana Babovic Dimitrijevic; Suncica Petrovic; Pauline  Chevalier; Bob Rinse Schadenberg; Eloise Ainger; Liz Pellicano; Vanessa  Evers

doi:10.1145/3389189.3393738

Non-participatory user-centered design of accessible teacher-teleoperated robot and tablets for minimally verbal autistic children

Jamy Jue Li, Daniel Patrick Davison, Alyssa M. Alcorn, Alria Williams, Snezana Babovic Dimitrijevic, Suncica Petrovic, Pauline Chevalier, Bob Rinse Schadenberg, Eloise Ainger, Liz Pellicano, Vanessa Evers

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Autistic children with limited language ability are an important but overlooked community. We develop a teacher-teleoperated robot and tablet system, as well as learning activities, to help teach facial emotions to minimally verbal autistic children. We then conduct user studies with 31 UK and Serbia minimally verbal autistic children to evaluate the system's accessibility. Results showed minimally verbal autistic children could use the tablet interface to control or respond to a humanoid robot and could understand the face learning activities. We found that a flexible and powerful wizard-of-oz tablet interface respected the needs of the children and their teachers. Our work suggests that a non-participatory, user-centered design process can create a robot and tablet system that is accessible to many autistic children.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	PETRA '20
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments
Place of Publication	New York, NY
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1-9
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-7773-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3389189.3393738
Publication status	Published - 30 Jun 2020
Event	13th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2020 - Corfu Holiday Palace, Virtual, Online, Greece Duration: 30 Jun 2020 → 3 Jul 2020 Conference number: 13

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Conference	13th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2020
Abbreviated title	PETRA 2020
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Virtual, Online
Period	30/06/20 → 3/07/20

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Li, J. J., Davison, D. P., Alcorn, A. M., Williams, A., Babovic Dimitrijevic, S., Petrovic, S., Chevalier, P., Schadenberg, B. R., Ainger, E., Pellicano, L., & Evers, V. (2020). Non-participatory user-centered design of accessible teacher-teleoperated robot and tablets for minimally verbal autistic children. In PETRA '20: Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (pp. 1-9). Article 8 Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3389189.3393738

Li, Jamy Jue ; Davison, Daniel Patrick ; Alcorn, Alyssa M. et al. / Non-participatory user-centered design of accessible teacher-teleoperated robot and tablets for minimally verbal autistic children. PETRA '20: Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments. New York, NY : Association for Computing Machinery, 2020. pp. 1-9

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Non-participatory user-centered design of accessible teacher-teleoperated robot and tablets for minimally verbal autistic children

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